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Yana Breindl
Yana Breindl is a Researcher at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities and the Insitut for Political Science, Georg-August Universität Göttingen. Her research objective is to carry out a comparative public policy analysis of Internet blocking in liberal democracies. From November 2011 to June 2012, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching discourse networks on Internet blocking in France and Germany. Breindl completed a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Sciences, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her dissertation, entitled ‘Hacking the Law: An Analysis of Internet-based Campaigning on Digital Rights in the European Union (2011)’, investigates the campaigning techniques used by digital rights activists to influence EU policy-making. She also completed a BA and MA in Information and Communication Sciences, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.